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Friday, 31 October 2014

Hello everyone, time to announce the winners of our October Christmas challenge and what a bust month it was with some awesome entries, our thanks to each and every one of you for joining in the fun. Also a very warm welcome to our new followers this month. So here are the winners as selected in the random draw...............

Congratulations to you all, please mail me with your full names and postal addy's so I can get your prizes posted. And don't forget to grab our winners badge for your own blog sidebars. Any prizes unclaimed by midnight GMT on 6th November will be re-drawn and new winners notified by either blog comment or mail.

As it's coming up to a busy time of year for everyone we decided to select Guest Designers for both December and January and those two people are:

Well done to you all, please mail me by 30th October with your full names and postal addys so I can get your prizes posted off to you. And prizes unclaimed by that date will be re-drawn and winners notified by either blog comment or e.mail.

See you all again later this week when I announce this months challenge winners.

Sunday, 12 October 2014

The main Penny Black prize for one very lucky winner, Christmas stamps, design papers, stencil, die and ribbons

Candy now closed - winners will be posted later today Monday 27th October.

A very warm welcome to our special October prize candy event.

As you can see as you scroll down this post we have some wonderful prizes to be won and entering couldn't be easier, all you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is:

Be a follower of our challenge blog.

Add our candy logo above to your sidebar with a link back here

Register for free with the Penny Black Club - essential for all us Penny Black fans as we are among the first to know about new releases, news from Penny Black and so much more.

Leave us a comment on this post as the winners will be selected from those names.

And to be eligible for a further bonus prize 'Like' Penny Black on Facebook here and leave a comment. And if you would like to share as well that would be wonderful, here is the bonus prize.......

In additional some of the Design Team have extra goodies to give away on their own blogs and those doing so will pick a winning name on 26th October. Here are the links to the individual DT blogs so please do pop along to visit them.

Sunday, 5 October 2014

Welcome to our October challenge plus some exciting news which I will tell you about right away.

As well as our October challenge we are going to be having a fab candy giveaway later this month, in fact there will be quite a few prizes to be won, so we would love it if you can help us spread the word by sharing the logo below on your own blogs and linking it back here so everyone can join in the fun. I will be back bright and early on 12th October with more news, prizes and how to enter.

Now for our October theme which is..................

******Get ahead for Christmas******

I know lots of you are already well into your Christmas cards and others like me need a gentle nudge so it's the perfect opportunity to join in. Usual rules apply, you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, use any make of stamp, but no digi images and we must see some stamping as the focal element of our work. Any entries failing to meet the rules may still receive comments from the DT but will not be eligible for the prizes on offer.

Again lots of awesome prizes from our wonderful sponsors and don't forget that every month the Design Team select one person from entries using a Penny Black stamp to join us as a Guest Designer..............

Penny Black invite you to explore their creative world and see for yourself why their rubber stamps, stickers, beautiful papers for scrapbooking, cardmaking and stamp crafting are everyone’s favourites. Their products are designed to integrate style and colour for creating the best handicraft projects ever. They also have a great club here, membership is free and you will be one of the first to know all the latest news from Penny Black. Three lovely Christmas stamps to help you along your way................

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity. A surprise gift from Marianne Designs.

Nicecrane Designs offer a huge range of high quality Vintage inspired design sheets and images to create and compliment all your crafting projects from cardmaking to scrapbooking. Designs range from Vintage fashion and animals to well known children's characters such as Peter Rabbit and The Water Babies with new images being added to the range on a monthly basis. A $20 store voucher for designs of winners choice.

FlonzCraftn are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand, a very small country where all people are great neighbours. We work hard for our work and store philosophy to reflect that in our company. We will never be ashamed of our products. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have and unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else. A $20 store voucher for stamps if winners choice.We welcome another of our Allsorts teamies Wendy and a Guest Designer this month, here is her lovely Christmas Card.........

And here are the cards the Design Team have created to inspire you.............

Friday, 3 October 2014

Good morning, it's time to announce our September winners and also thank you for your wonderful Autumnal creations, you really did embrace the theme with some stunning entries. So here are the winners as selected by Ramdom Org.,

Well done to you all, please mail me with your full names and postal addresses so I can get your prizes in the post to you. Any prizes unclaimed by 10th November will be re-drawn and winners notified by blog comment or e.mail.

And the design team have cast their votes and we would like Helen to join us as our November Guest Designer, please mail me so I can tell you more about the theme for that month.

I will be back on Sunday with our new challenge plus some exciting news....................